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Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1497 Location: Ontario Canada

Manual frugal install to a 4gb flash drive.
Acer Aspire One 721-3801 netbook
Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)

Precise Puppy, version 5.2.60 on Thu 7 Jun 2012

Chip description:
5.0 VGA compatible controller
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RS880M 01.00

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: radeon

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1024x600 pixels (270x158 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

# glxgears
1380 frames in 5.1 seconds = 272.696 FPS
1360 frames in 5.0 seconds = 271.065 FPS
1360 frames in 5.1 seconds = 268.446 FPS

On first boot it was running the vesa driver so I exited to the prompt
and ran xorgwizard, chose probe, and ended up with the radeon driver.
In glxgears fps was less than 60.
I opened ppm and updated it adding the 3 precise repos, then exited
and restarted ppm.
I did a search for mesa and installed everything that came up that had
anything to do with mesa, rebooted along the way a few times and ended up with
better fps, good enough to run a Google Earth sfs that I installed.

On an earlier save file I had tried to install the ati proprietary
driver and that failed, miserably.

I'm getting much better results on my computers with Nvidia cards but
this is useable.

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 333 Location: London, England

Precise Puppy

# gtkhash
gtkhash; error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-3.so.0:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Apologies if this is a known issue or something.

peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 913 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 913 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

Ted Dog · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 987 Location: Heart of Texas

Worked the last Wary version but not in this series of betas. Sad

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2257 Location: Japan

Karl Godt · Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 2682 Location: Kiel,Germany

Ted Dog · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 987 Location: Heart of Texas

broomdodger · Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 179 Location: Santa Cruz, CA

Precise Puppy 5.2.60 (beta2) frugal
Racy530 frugal

sylpheed-3.1.4
sylpheed-3.2.0beta7
sylpheed-3.2.0beta8

All FAIL to compile on precise5260
All compile OK on racy530

When compiled on racy530, all will run on precise5260!

vim 7.3.548 compiles and runs great on both.

I can send the make log if you need it.

Bill

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

Precise 5.2.60.....

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

Fresh manual frugal install on the trusty Athlon XP box.Sound,internet and display all working and correct on initial boot.

# report-video
Precise Puppy, version 5.2.60 on Fri 8 Jun 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: # vesa

X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
#
Actually using the "nouveau" driver.

-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1034MB (180MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Fri 08 Jun 2012 01:17:21 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI nv18 x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : VIA8233 - VIA 8235

All basics looking good.

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1497 Location: Ontario Canada

I been trying out the Puppy Package Manager in beta 2 and it's working
very well.
I've installed quite a few things including xfce, it's pretty amazing
how well this is working.

EDIT: I added cairo-dock to xfce4

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2640 Location: Earth

@Barry, I sent a PM on a different aspect of QuickSET.

But, here's an observation that I'm not sure if its a bug, so I'm asking for a clarification.

I had serveral persons test Precise using desktop PCs on the LAN. (see below for the QuickSET example.)
I tested Precise using my Laptop and got an unexpected result. (see below for the QuickSET example.)

As you can see, the Hostname field is missing in QuickSET for the laptop. For consistency, I had expected the laptop to look like what I get on a desktop. Are there 2 different QuckSETs for some reason???

On a different issue, iwth SeaMonkey
I am using SeaMonkey as shipped. When I'm on the forum, it is not showing mispellings when adding a post to a thread. Probably something minor.

PPM clarificatoin
I noticed that the OOTB PPM screeen shows a Puppy-Precise for which there is NO PETs showing, at all when selected. Further, when I acvance to the configruaton PPM screen, there is no PuppyPrecise on the right side of the screen.

Is there something of a preliminary nature that should be done when PPM is first used in Precise that would correct what we see?

Hope this helps

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

I have been unsuccessful trying to add my wifi printer, Officejet 6500 to my laptop installation of beta 2. The printer installs fine with pemasu's Exprimo, using CUPS 1.4.4 as shown on the attached image. Also it works fine with 01micko's Slacko using version 1.4.6. Please consider upgrading to a later CUPS version.